I appreciate your engagement on this session, so many awesome comments shared…THANK YOU 🙏🏻🤟🏻 Back in 1998, I was commissioned to remix RODENT for Skinny Puppy’s Remix Dystemper. Nettwerk loaned me the original 2”- 24 track, and I booked a session at Mushroom Studios to make a ProTools copy. This newly ‘restored' mix is from that same copy. I (we) HAVE to acknowledge Rave’s production on this song, because it’s absolutely brilliant! We should all take a lesson, from the fact that he fit everything into 24 tracks 😳 The original sounds, vocals, guitars, etc. were really, really well produced, and recorded…it was an incredible learning experience restoring it 🙏🏻 A loving shout out to you Rave, for producing my favourite SP track EVER, and for taking me under your wing while doing so. I only realized years later, what a special privilege that was…to be trained by the BEST Industrial Music producer/engineer of our time…Dave ‘RAVE’ Ogilvie 🤟🏻❤❤ 💥Note for us geeks💥 When I was referencing my restored mix with Rave’s original, it didn’t take long to realize he must have used a REALLY COOL ‘old school’ trick when mixing…When working with an analog tape machine, mix engineers often switch on the varispeed control, and speed it up a few ‘cents’ for the mix. In most cases, it results in a tighter bottom end, without straying too far from standard pitch. My restored mix was a little ‘flat’, or slower than the original LP version, so I simply ’squeezed’ my final mix to match, using Avid’s time comp/expans Audiosuite plugin. Ended up sounding better 🤟🏻 Thanks for sitting in, I hope you enjoy this new ‘restored' mix of RODENT 2.0 🐀 ❤hiwatt

I would like to see this done to the whole album, and re-released

I no longer need acid to hear the finer details

As Tuco Salamanca would say, this restoration is "Tight, Tight, Tight!!"

feels like Halloween in spring during one's first great personal awakening

You cleaned this up so good, but without taking anything away from the original mix. This is absolutely flawless!

The ENTIRE Rabies album needs an update, and release on VINYL and CD. Rabies has been treated terribly by the label and they must make amends! I'm glad to have the properly remastered CD, but we GOTTA have VINYL that isn't screwed up!

Dark. So dark. So lovely. I don't know what I would have done without SP in the late 80s and early 90s.

This is such a killer update. Not too much, not too little, just a nice focus on many previously kinda obscured elements that really give the song a new life.

I'm a year late, but I still had to comment. This is AMAZING.

only in this version do i realize Ogre is saying "HOLD it down", i always thought it was "going down" 🤯

It feels more open. Everything is breathing.

I could re-live this fantastic music for the rest of my days. Love hearing your new spin on it. Thank you!

This song and album was my "gateway drug" to this great "rock 'n roll" band! Love EVERY song they have made before and since! Thanks for sharing. Sounds absolutely fucking amazing in my headphones....currently on repeat while I check my emails and local news, lol! Play it Loud! 🤟😃🤟

I love the emphasis of the keyboard line which starts at 0:44. This line is buried in the mix on the original release.

I always thought that a 5.1 mix of Too Dark Park would sound incredible! The entire SP discography would be wonderful to get a remaster!

like a boss - Hiwatt is the GOAT

A masterclass in how far old tapes can go in capable hands.

This is great! I do have to say that I am also particularly fond of the best remix of this song - Ken's version on Remix Dys Temper. :)

Is there a 30th anniversary of the 1993 remastered (Remaster Remastered?) version coming next year? PLEASE!

Crisp!! Oh, I wish this was released as a hi-rez download. It sounds amazing, Ken! 😍

Absolutely one of my favorite SP tracks. That simple bass line is just killer when it pops in, then when the vocals come in it's just perfect. makes me so nostalgic like hearing it for the first time! :)

Ahead of its time especially "Worlock." and I actually like this restored version better!

When that synth hits...

Stunning is the best word I can come up with. Would love to see this on 12".

Watching a reel to reel is very calming. Having SP and Hiwatt provide the noise doesn’t take away from my calm at all.

holy hell I hear things I've never heard in this mix and ive listened to this track since it came out. job well done!! and a special thanks to Dwanye too! omg does it get any better than this?!?!?!

I’m gonna have this for lunch tomorrow 😋

I love seeing the meters as the visualization too

Early SP with every instrument and sample crisp and distinguishable. This is god like mixing.

Oh man this takes me back. When the synth kicks and your grooving. Then the guitar just takes it to another level. Thank you for sharing.

The music of future!

I always got chills when the guitar kicked in, and would always reach over to crank the volume higher in the car.

Wow, thank you. Was in a dark place and this just took me back to 1989 when the world was not yet such a dismal place to the 11 year old me first popping this cassette into the deck. I don’t mean to get all emotional and wierd but you may have just brought back a touch of hope to someone who had all but abandoned it.

Rabies est pour moi l'un des albums les plus accompli avec Last Rights...Toute mon adolescence !!

My gawd, in good headphones this feels like I’m listening to this in widescreen 4K UHD with HDR after growing up listening to it on pan and scan VHS ;)

This was the first Skinny Puppy song I ever heard, all the way back in late 1990 - I was instantly smitten, been a fan ever since.

As much as I love this, my biggest takeaway was this MONTHS session instead of this week's. :-( I love this channel so ! much. Thank you Ken for giving us as much as you do, we're all very lucky.

wow I didn’t think I could possibly love this track anymore than I already did but yet here we are

I heard things I didn't know that where there, but now I hear them loud and sparkling clear. What kind of magic did you use? It must have taken countless of hours to get this finished? Huge and humble respect! Simply can't wait till next month! But I understand that weekly broadcast takes a lot of discipline, a lot of time and a lot of energy. So far we all have gained so much from your channel and your knowledge and especially from the contagious enthusiasm. Ken, you literally have saved me from many desperate and dark Friday evenings just by always keeping up the positive spirit of your channel! But as we know, life shifts up and down... I hope everything is and will be all right!

Ken… You’ve pulled the original spirit / fire / ghost of this manifestation clear through to our present times with the utmost purity. Words fail to convey what you’ve accomplished here and how much those of us who’ve been along for the ride appreciate it. Stay powerful 🙏

🖤🖤🖤 dynamic af!!! please do the whole record!

I wanna so totally hear some Too Dark Park Tour shows recordings from the mixing board. In good quality. that would be dope

Dammit man you made me get off the couch to power up the stereo.

It's so damn good! Looking forward to Worlock 2.0 😁

Remixed/mastered with wonderful outboard gear! So much about this track is why I fell in love with Puppy. This so defines the style of Industrial that I love and miss.

Incredible

Thank you Ken!!!!

omg..nice..now ya got me..dig it! rrekurdsout!.mist ya .

First time I listened to SP back in 90’s was this track, blew me away as a teen and still does!

One of my fave SP tracks restored by the one and only K.H.M. 🙌

So much power, and the signature voodoo. The guitars at 4:20 really are very present here, which is nice. Thank you for sharing this.

Wow! One of my favourite SP tracks sounds even crisper and more raw! Love it!

........... .... .... .... WOW!

Thank you, I love this song and the vintage gear visuals made me feel like I was there back in the day, I’m crying happy tears watching this

Goddamn this is wonderful... I loved it when Dystemper came out, but this takes it to a whole 'nother level!

I love that this is on a reel to reel

F'in brilliant! Damn. Cleaned up rather nicely there didn't ya? :) You got that ear (two of em! ;) ) my brother of sound. Hands of fire man. Truly art in beautiful chaotic form. Keep on killing em man. Love it!

Beaut!

Definitely in my top 10 favourite puppy songs. Thank you again, Ken!

Wooow what a sound

one of my most favorite songs

This is an incredible mix of this song. Wow! I need to go listen to this again, but with my good headphones. Thank you for making one of my favourite Puppy tracks sound even better!

Eargasm...

This. Is. SO. Crisp.

BRAP ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!

One of my favorite SP tracks. This deserves to be heard with your best quality headphones. Amazing work!

gotta get this out on a 12"

Rabies and every track on it is my all time favorite SP album.

4:19 ooof yeaaa

Oh my god that sounds fantastic 🥋🎧🥋

One of my favourites too. Thanks for this. Where can we get a digital or physical copy?

....Mouthed the Word Money!!!!

💙This it sounds amazing, rather impressive level of clarity and spaciousness!

Sounds AMAZING, Ken! Thank you for the, "restoration"! ;)

Your mixes of Rodent pull me right back into listening to SP again! Not the first time, this… 🖤

Amazing mix. Would love it if you could somehow go back and “clean up” Last Rights. I think it is one of the most layered and dense pieces of music every written - still hearing new things decades later - but I know there must be so much more in there to be revealed with a new mix.

wiiiiicked

Thanks Ken! Just what I needed today. Brings me back

I remember having to use Nettwerk's mail order service to get the remastered Rabies sent to my house in suburban Cleveland. The audio was a night-and-day difference compared to the Capitol version. Who must I slay to have an entire Rabies 2.0? Just point me in the direction and I will do so

Pure excellence.

This is fantastic. Thank you for posting it.

Brings ma back to those more angry drug minded days.

Thank you. Sincerely for re-lighting my deep admiration for this band.

Good stuff!

this is ABSolutely INsane

WOW , new life to old song.Fantastic ....

Amazing. Just incredible.

Amazing Ken! I'd love to see move of this. Also a track breakdown! ...How your going about treating each track, compression, EQ etc. Bests-

Aaaaaaamazing! Thank You!

Love your work Ken!

Oyeah this sounds great!🤓

Great Track Great Mix been watching Ken "hiwatt" Marshall production videos for tips on music production. A wealth of Information.

Damn!!! Always one of my favorites.

Top notch, dude! It's amazing how modern tech can really bring everything to the front and still hear everything so clearly, even on 35 year old tracks. I don't think I've ever heard the bass synth so clearly. It's hard to have just one fav puppy tune, but this has always been among them. I bet Nivek had to take a lot of throat lozenges.

Those vocals sound so much cleaner, less chaotic and abrasive sounding. You didn’t detract from the original song whatsoever but added a cleaner and refined aspect to it. The vocals are one of the core discernible differences compared to the original. Did you reduce the gain on the vocals?

One of my all time fave puppy tracks!

Oh man, this sounds so awesome, thank you for doing this Ken.

Wow. I know this track since it was first released. Pre-ordered the import vinyl back in the days. What a great great mix you got there. I enjoyed to re-discover things. Sounds beatiful. Thank you. ❤️

OMG